[✔️] June 20, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*June  20, 2022*/

/[Floods in India and Bangladesh ]/
*'Unprecedented' flooding in India, Bangladesh leaves millions homeless 
| DW News*
21,285 views  Jun 19, 2022  Northeast India and neighboring Bangladesh 
have been hit by heavier than usual monsoon rains, causing widespread 
flooding. At least nine people have been killed and 2 million left 
homeless in the Indian state of Assam. Experts say floods following 
seasonal rains are increasing due to climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF_jxoqenCo

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/[ DW video 5 mins ]/
*Floods in India, Bangladesh leave millions homeless, 18 dead*
SAT, JUN 18 2022
- Army troops were called in to rescue thousands of people stranded by 
massive floods that have ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh.
- In India’s Assam state, at least nine people were killed in the floods 
and 2 million saw their homes submerged, according to the state disaster 
management agency.
- Lightning strikes in parts of neighboring Bangladesh have left at 
least nine dead since Friday.
Last month, a pre-monsoon flash flood, triggered by a rush of water from 
upstream in India’s northeastern states, hit Bangladesh’s northern and 
northeastern regions, destroying crops and damaging homes and roads. The 
country was just starting to recover when fresh rains flooded the same 
areas again this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF_jxoqenCo



/[ Just Have a Think - 12 min video opinion ]/
*Lifetime carbon emissions of renewables vs fossil fuel. Problem or 
solution?*
Jun 19, 2022  Renewable energy sources are playing an increasingly 
important role in electricity girds all over the world. They emit 
negligible greenhouse gas emissions at the point of use. But is that the 
whole story? How do lifetime emissions from manufacture, transport and 
disposal of renewables stack up against fossil fuels?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNHe-lQrrOs



/[  from Aljazeera - all since 2003 ] /
*Europe’s five hottest summers since 1500*
In just more than 20 years, the continent has experienced its five 
hottest summers since 1500.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/17/europes-hottest-summers



/[  Every moment brings opportunity for change ] /
*Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a 
Crucial Moment*
A Supreme Court environmental case being decided this month is the 
product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys 
general and conservative allies.
By Coral Davenport - - June 19, 2022 - - Updated 9:08 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — Within days, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court 
is expected to hand down a decision that could severely limit the 
federal government’s authority to reduce carbon dioxide from power 
plants — pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

But it’s only a start.

The case, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, is the 
product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys 
general, conservative legal activists and their funders, several with 
ties to the oil and coal industries, to use the judicial system to 
rewrite environmental law, weakening the executive branch’s ability to 
tackle global warming.
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The plaintiffs want to hem in what they call the administrative state, 
the E.P.A. and other federal agencies that set rules and regulations 
that affect the American economy. That should be the role of Congress, 
which is more accountable to voters, said Jeff Landry, the Louisiana 
attorney general and one of the leaders of the Republican group bringing 
the lawsuits.

But Congress has barely addressed the issue of climate change. Instead, 
for decades it has delegated authority to the agencies because it lacks 
the expertise possessed by the specialists who write complicated rules 
and regulations and who can respond quickly to changing science, 
particularly when Capitol Hill is gridlocked.

West Virginia v. E.P.A., No. 20–1530 on the court docket, is also 
notable for the tangle of connections between the plaintiffs and the 
Supreme Court justices who will decide their case. The Republican 
plaintiffs share many of the same donors behind efforts to nominate and 
confirm five of the Republicans on the bench — John G. Roberts, Samuel 
A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett...
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At least two climate cases are pending before the United States Court of 
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which has eight judges appointed by 
Democratic presidents, nine judges chosen by Republicans, including 
three Trump appointees, and one vacancy.

Another Trump appointee on that bench is Justin Walker, a former protégé 
of Mr. McConnell’s and a fellow Kentuckian who wrote a 2021 dissenting 
opinion in the West Virginia v. E.P.A. case in which he argued that the 
agency lacked the authority to regulate pollution that causes climate 
change.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has seven judges appointed by 
Democratic presidents and 19 chosen by Republicans, including six Trump 
appointees. It’s where the Republican attorneys general have filed a 
challenge to the government’s ability to consider the economic cost of 
climate change when making environmental decisions.

On that bench is Andrew Oldham, a Trump pick who was once deputy 
attorney general of Texas. In that role, he worked on the West Virginia 
vs. E.P.A. climate case, and said in a 2016 speech that climate 
regulation and the E.P.A. itself are “just utterly and fundamentally 
illegitimate.”

To the same panel, Mr. Trump appointed Don Willett, a former fellow at 
the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative research organization 
that has received substantial funding from Charles and David Koch and 
aims to “explain the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels” by arguing 
that they shield the poor from higher energy costs.

Judges Rao, Walker, Oldham and Willett did not respond to requests for 
interviews.

*A New Legal Approach*
Of the 27 Republican attorneys general, a core group from fossil fuel 
states is leading the coordinated legal challenges: Patrick Morrisey of 
West Virginia, Daniel Cameron of Kentucky, Todd Rokita of Indiana, Ken 
Paxton of Texas and Mr. Landry from Louisiana.

They meet regularly among themselves and with the oil, gas and coal 
industries, Mr. Landry said in an interview. “It would be great if we 
could see an overturning of Chevron,” he said.

The West Virginia case is largely concerned with a line of attack 
related to Chevron, also rooted in arguments about the separation of 
powers, which holds that Congress should use plain and direct language 
if it is to authorize sweeping actions by administrative agencies that 
could transform the economy.

“What we’re looking to do is to make sure that the right people under 
our constitutional system make the correct decisions,” Mr. Morrisey, who 
argued the West Virginia v. E.P.A. case before the Supreme Court, said 
during a public appearance in Washington in February. “These agencies, 
these federal agencies, don’t have the ability to act solely on their 
own without getting a clear statement from Congress. Delegation matters.”

Lined up behind the West Virginia power plant suit is another case in 
the D.C. Circuit Court brought by 15 attorneys general challenging a 
2021 federal rule designed to cut auto pollution by compelling 
automakers to sell more electric vehicles.

Mr. Paxton of Texas calls the auto pollution rule a “war against fossil 
fuels” that will harm “the livelihoods of hard-working Texans.”

Should that challenge succeed, more than a dozen Democratic-governed 
states are expected to impose tougher state-level auto pollution 
standards. But the Republican attorneys general have already filed a 
suit in the D.C. Circuit court seeking to block states’ authority to do 
that.

Another case pending in two different circuit courts challenges the way 
the federal government calculates the real-life cost of climate change. 
If the attorneys general succeed in blocking the use of that metric, 
they could strip the federal government of its legal defense for almost 
any future climate policy.

That case has been filed by 10 attorneys general in the Fifth Circuit 
Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Texas, Louisiana and 
Mississippi. The same case has been filed by 13 attorneys general in the 
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, 
North and South Dakota and Minnesota.

“The A.G.s have a big advantage here, where they can forum-shop and 
choose the most favorable venues for their litigation,” Mr. Nolette 
said. “And they can break up into a multistate coalition, to do more 
arguments in front of more judges. That increases their odds for success.”

While no single case is aimed at overturning Chevron, a string of 
victories would essentially hollow it out.

Sally Katzen, co-director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process 
Clinic at New York University School of Law, said that a Supreme Court 
victory this month for the Republican attorneys general and their allies 
would just be a taste of what’s to come.

“The Federalist Society has put a lot of time and energy into this, and 
a lot of intellectual power,” said Ms. Katzen, former head of the White 
House office of regulatory affairs in the Clinton administration. “All 
that effort has paid off. But I don’t think this is the culmination of 
their agenda. I think it’s just the beginning.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/climate/supreme-court-climate-epa.html


/[  think of colored stripes -- orange, white and blue ] /
*The surprising story of ‘warming stripes’*
One of the most popular ways to visualize rising temperatures is a 
simple graphic known as warming stripes. Here’s the backstory.

By Somini Sengupta - - June 17, 2022
June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day.

Stripes, as in warming stripes, a popular way to visualize global 
warming trends over the last 150 years.

You’ll find warming stripes on face masks (see my Twitter profile), on 
scarves (Blackrock’s chief executive Larry Fink wore one around his neck 
at Davos a couple of years ago), on buildings (the Scottish power 
company beamed them onto the stack of a coal-fired power plant that was 
about to be scrapped), a bridge in Leipzig, Germany, a rock band album 
cover.

Each stripe represents the average temperature for a year. There are 
stripes available for every country in the world, based on average 
annual temperatures for that country, as well as for every state in the 
United States. In most cases, you’ll see the stripes change from blue to 
red...
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Each stripe represents the average temperature for a year. There are 
stripes available for every country in the world, based on average 
annual temperatures for that country, as well as for every state in the 
United States. In most cases, you’ll see the stripes change from blue to 
red.
It’s turned out to be arguably the most effective climate communication 
graphic....
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An American meteorologist, Jeff Berardelli, saw the stripes online in 
2018 and urged fellow meteorologists to use it on the summer solstice, 
June 21. The next year, the #ShowYourStripes hashtag was born. In 2021, 
Hawkins was invited to London fashion week, where Lucy Tammam featured 
the stripes on a few dresses. He says he had never imagined attending a 
fashion show.

“It’s great to see people take this symbol and be so creative with it,” 
he said. “A lot of our conversations happen in our groups, in our 
tribes, if you will. The more conversations we start in different 
groups, the better. The stripes can help.”

The baby for whom Highwood made the blanket is now 5. Her mother, 
Jennifer Catto, a climate scientist at Exeter University, posted a 
picture on Twitter.

You’ll notice that the stripes take a sharp turn toward the yellows, and 
then reds, starting in the late 1970s, reflecting the significant rise 
in global average temperatures. Last year was a dark red. How dark the 
stripes get by the end of this century depends on whether the world as a 
whole keeps pumping more greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

That is to say, the color scheme depends entirely on us. And yes, that 
requires creativity.

“Our choices determine what happens next,” Hawkins said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/climate/climate-warming-stripes.html



/[  Global warming reveals more dinosaurs... cool! ]/
Yale E360 DIGEST
JUNE 3, 2022
*Melting Glacier in Chile Reveals Trove of Ichthyosaur Fossils*
The retreat of Chile’s Tyndall Glacier has revealed a graveyard of 
ichthyosaurs, dolphin-like reptiles that roamed the oceans more than 90 
million years ago.

The Tyndall Glacier is melting, with parts retreating by as much as 2 
kilometers in recent decades, exposing long-hidden fossils. So far, 
paleontologists have uncovered the remains of 76 ichthyosaurs in bedrock 
left bare by melting, a trend highlighted in newly released satellite 
images from NASA comparing the glacier in 1986 and today.

“I’m certain that many of the specimens were under the glacier in the 
1986 image,” Dean Lomax, a paleontologist at the University of 
Manchester. “To our knowledge, there is no other site in the world where 
so many exceptional fossils are being exposed due to a retreating glacier.”

Glacial melt has helped spare the fossils from being ground up by the 
slow movement of rocks and dirt beneath the glacier, scientists say. One 
particularly notable fossil, “Fiona,” a mother bearing several embryos, 
“would have been turned into powder if it had remained covered by the 
glacier a few more decades,” said Camilo Rada, a glaciologist at 
University of Magallanes in Chile...
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Glacial melt has helped spare the fossils from being ground up by the 
slow movement of rocks and dirt beneath the glacier, scientists say. One 
particularly notable fossil, “Fiona,” a mother bearing several embryos, 
“would have been turned into powder if it had remained covered by the 
glacier a few more decades,” said Camilo Rada, a glaciologist at 
University of Magallanes in Chile.

Climate change is uncovering fossilized remains and human artifacts 
around the world as warmer temperatures shrink glaciers and drought saps 
lakes and rivers. Ice melt has revealed a World War I cave bunker in the 
Alps and Stone Age tools in Norway and the Rocky Mountains, while 
falling water levels have recently exposed a decomposed body in Nevada’s 
Lake Mead, a ghost village in Spain’s Alto Lindoso reservoir, and a 
Bronze Age city along the Tigris River in Iraq.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/melting-glacier-in-chile-reveals-trove-of-ichthyosaur-fossils



/[The news archive - a video looking back at one step forward - later 
became 10 steps back ]/
/*June 20, 1979*/
June 20, 1979: Solar heaters are installed on the roof of the White 
House by President Carter. The panels would be yanked down by President 
Reagan in August 1986.

    *A Road Not Taken*
    Jul 7, 2010  http://facebook.com/ScienceReason ...  In 1979, Jimmy
    Carter, in a visionary move, installed solar panels on the roof of
    the White House. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986
    during the Reagan presidency. In 1991, Unity College, an
    environmentally-minded centre of learning in Maine acquired the
    panels and later installed them on their cafeteria roof.

    In "A Road not Taken", Swiss artists Christina Hemauer and Roman
    Keller travel back in time and, following the route the solar panels
    took, interview those involved in the decisions regarding these
    panels as well as those involved in the oil crisis of the time. They
    also look closely at the way this initial installation presaged our
    own era.

    You may not remember this but in 1979, President Jimmy Carter
    installed solar panels on the roof of the White House West Wing. The
    panels, which were used to heat water for the staff eating area,
    were a symbol of a new solar strategy that Carter had said was going
    to "move our Nation toward true energy security and abundant,
    readily available, energy supplies." But in 1986, President Ronald
    Reagan removed the solar panels while the White House roof was being
    repaired. They were never reinstalled.

    In 1991, the panels were retrieved from government storage and
    brought to the environmentally-minded Unity College about an hour
    southeast of Bangor, Maine. There, with help of Academy Award
    winning actress Glenn Close, the panels were refurbished and used to
    heat water in the cafeteria up until 2005. They are still there,
    although they no longer function.

    Swiss directors Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller follow the route
    the panels took, using them as a backdrop to explore American oil
    dependency and the lack of political will to pursue alternative
    energy sources.

    In the movie "A Road Not Taken", the filmmakers took two solar
    panels from Unity, placed them in the back of two students' 1990
    Dodge Ram pick-up truck (which had been retrofitted to run on
    vegetable oil) and delivered one of them to the Jimmy Carter Library
    & Museum in Atlanta and the other to the National Museum of American
    History in Washington.

    In 1979, Carter warned, "a generation from now, this solar heater
    can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not
    taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and
    most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people -
    harnessing the power of the sun to enrich our lives as we move away
    from our crippling dependence on foreign oil."

    It turns out Carter's warning was at least partially correct: two of
    his solar panels are now a museum piece.
    http://www.roadnottaken.info/

http://youtu.be/_88idk1VJGU



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